14-letter words containing a, p, o, d, s, e
- disposableness — Disposability.
- dna polymerase — any of a class of enzymes involved in the synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid from its deoxyribonucleoside triphosphate precursors.
- donkey topsail — a four-sided gaff topsail, used above a gaff sail or lugsail, having its head laced to a small spar.
- door peninsula — a peninsula in NE Wisconsin, between Green Bay and Lake Michigan: resorts, farming.
- double spacing — text layout: extra space between lines
- dowager's hump — a type of kyphosis, common in older women, in which the shoulders become rounded and the upper back develops a hump: caused by osteoporosis resulting in skeletal deformity.
- draughtsperson — Alternative spelling of draftsperson.
- draw a pension — If you draw a pension, you receive money from an insurer or the state because you have reached a particular age.
- drepanocytosis — Sickle-cell anemia.
- dual ownership — the state of owning something jointly with someone else
- eaves-dropping — to listen secretly to a private conversation.
- encyclopaedism — Alt form encyclopedism.
- encyclopaedist — Alternative spelling of encyclopedist.
- endoparasitism — Behaviour of endoparasites.
- endopeptidases — Plural form of endopeptidase.
- endoscopically — By means of an endoscope.
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion card — (hardware) A circuit board which can be plugged into one of a computer's expansion slots to provide some optional extra facility such as additional RAM, disk controller, coprocessor, graphics accelerator, communication device or some special-purpose interface. Different computers have different standards for the cards they accept, e.g. PCI.
- exploding star — an irregular variable star, such as a nova, supernova, or flare star, in which rapid increases in luminosity occur, caused by some form of explosion
- fashion parade — a parade of models displaying clothes to prospective buyers
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- flanders poppy — corn poppy.
- foamed plastic — expanded plastic.
- go pear-shaped — If a situation goes pear-shaped, bad things start happening.
- great red spot — a large, usually reddish gaseous vortex on the surface of Jupiter, about 14,000 by 30,000 km, that drifts about slowly as the planet rotates and has been observed for several hundred years.
- hampshire down — Also called Hants. a county in S England. 1460 sq. mi. (3780 sq. km).
- hepatectomised — Alt form hepatectomized.
- hermaphrodites — Plural form of hermaphrodite.
- hermaphroditus — a son of Hermes and Aphrodite who merged with the nymph Salmacis to form one body
- household soap — a substance that you use with water for washing clothes, removing stains, cleaning floors, etc
- hydrocephalous — Having a swollen head.
- hypoadrenalism — underactivity of the adrenal gland, as in Addison's disease.
- impersonalised — to make impersonal: The dial system impersonalized the telephone.
- impersonalized — Simple past tense and past participle of impersonalize.
- indecomposable — incapable of being decomposed.
- isolated point — Mathematics. a point in a set such that the neighborhood of the point is devoid of any other points belonging to the set.
- landscape mode — a wide exposure suitable for photographing landscapes
- lead poisoning — Pathology. a toxic condition produced by ingestion, inhalation, or skin absorption of lead or lead compounds, resulting in various dose-related symptoms including anemia, nausea, muscle weakness, confusion, blindness, and coma. Also called plumbism, saturnism. this condition occurring in adults whose work involves contact with lead products.
- leopard's-bane — any composite plant of the genus Doronicum, of Europe and Asia, having alternate, usually clasping leaves and heads of yellow flowers.
- leptodactylous — having slender toes or fingers.
- lindelof space — a topological space having the property that every cover consisting of open sets has a subcover consisting of a countable number of subsets.
- listed company — A listed company is a company whose shares are quoted on a stock exchange.
- lords temporal — a member of the House of Lords who is not a member of the clergy.
- lymphedematous — Relating to lymphedema.
- meadow parsnip — any North American plant belonging to the genus Thaspium, of the parsley family, having yellow or purple flowers.
- modern persian — the Persian language since the Middle Persian stage.
- modus operandi — mode of operating or working.
- mustard powder — Mustard powder is a yellow powder. You add hot water to it in order to make mustard.
- myelodysplasia — (medicine) Any of various conditions characterized by the faulty or inadequate production of bone marrow or blood cells.
- nonparasitized — Not having been parasitized.